I went to St. Vincent's in Birmingham, AL. The main reason I was there was because of severe headaches but was also there to get fluids due to dehydration.Long story short, they completely ignored my complaints about having severe headaches and I actually stayed in the hospital for 3 days so they had plenty of time to investigate but didn't. Then I go home thinking everything is okay and the headaches would just eventually go away. 3 days later I stroke-out and my left leg becomes paralyzed. I then go back to the hospital and before they can figure out what is going on my left arm becomes paralyzed. Eventually they figure out that my brain is bleeding and they then attempt to treat me without surgery but it was too late and I needed brain surgery to survive. In my opinion I got looked at as a person just looking for painkillers and I'm having to pay the price for it and may have to pay for it the rest of my life. What also bothers me is that they had an ""oh well"" attitude about my situation and accused me of abusing drugs. They told me later that they tested me for cocaine,which came out negative. The doctors that failed to diagnose me properly were Dr. Vaporean and Dr. Shallcross. Dr. Swillie is the one that kept implying I was abusing some kind of illegal drug. In my opinion you should not go to this Hospital if you look like someone that they can profile. I have dark hair,dark skin and had to ask for painkillers for my severe headaches so that's probably why they ignored my complaints about my severe headaches.
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